wonder-striking

English

Adjective

wonder-striking (comparative more wonder-striking, superlative most wonder-striking)

1. Inspiring wonder or awe.

   Synonym: awestriking

   • 1643, John Vicars, Prodigies & Apparitions, or, Englands Warning Piece,‎:

     […] hath not the Lord used that other more terrible and heart-frighting course […] of Prodigies, Signes and Apparitions in the ayre, and other most degenerating, unnaturall and wonder-striking contingents amongst us here at home?

   • 1887, Edwin Abbott Abbott, The Kernel and the Husk‎, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Letter 21, p. 234:

     […] by revealing to us the wonder-striking order of the infinite stars […] Night leads us to dream, or to infer, that there may be other pages still unturned in the book of Nature’s mysteries,

   • 1918, Arnold Bennett, The Roll-Call‎, London: Hutchinson, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 26:

     The sensation of having the mysterious girl at his elbow in that wonder-striking interior was magnificent.

   • 1952, “The Voyage”, in Roy Campbell, transl., Poems of Baudelaire: A Translation of Les Fleurs du mal‎, London: Harvill, page 174:

     We have seen wonder-striking robes and dresses,
     Women whose nails and teeth the betel stains
     And jugglers whom the rearing snake caresses.